Edward Smith (biographer)

Edward Smith (1839–1919) was an English biographer. A Fellow of the Statistical Society, Smith was awarded its Howard Medal in 1875, for an essay on "The State of the Dwellings of the Poor [...]", then published as The Peasant's Home.

Works

 * The Peasant's Home, 1760-1875 (1876)
 * William Cobbett: A Biography (1878)
 * The Story of the English Jacobins (1881)
 * Foreign Visitors in England (1889)
 * England and America after Independence (1900)
 * The Life of Sir Joseph Banks (1911)

Contributions to the DNB

 * John Almon
 * Thomas Amyot
 * Edward Baines
 * Samuel Bamford
 * William Pleydell-Bouverie
 * Hugh Boyd (1746-1794)
 * Francis Burdett
 * Mathew Carey
 * John Cartwright (1740-1824)
 * William Cobbett